I love Halloween because you can never get enough fun-size Reese’s peanut butter cups.

I love the winter holidays because you can never get enough of seeing people’s faces when you give them the perfect present.

And I love Thanksgiving because you can never get enough pausing.

We all need more pausing. Halloween is about going house to house and collecting as much candy as possible, and Christmas and Hannukah are about rushing from store to store to find the perfect gifts. Those are holidays better suited to whirling dervishes.

Thanksgiving is about giving thanks. And it’s awfully hard to give thanks without pausing to think about who and what you’re thankful for.

The act of pausing may look like the act of doing nothing, but it’s actually a catalyst. Pausing is directly related to positive outcomes. It enables you to reassess, recharge, revisit, and a lot of other “re’s” that help you measure progress and recognize what is and isn’t working. It helps you experience more Joy of Solving in your life.

Thanksgiving may be about turkey and family and football. But remember to also make it about pausing; considering what you’ve done, and what could be. Where you could add more joy to your life.

And if nothing else, it’ll give you a little extra time to make room for a second helping of sweet potato casserole.

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